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For IT teams exploring the shift toward agentic workflows, the first step isn’t choosing the right platform or experimenting with AI tools. It’s understanding how work actually happens across your organization. These Workflow Insights become the foundation of your entire agentic strategy, guiding every decision that comes after.
Traditional workflow improvement focuses on individual tasks, what happens first, what happens next, what needs a trigger. Agentic workflows require a different mindset. Instead of task sequences, they focus on the outcome the business is trying to achieve.
Old approach: “Complete Task A, then Task B.”
Agentic approach: “Achieve a business goal with consistency, quality, and less manual effort.”
This shift helps IT teams step back from step-by-step routines and instead ask: What is the real goal of this process? What is the result we are trying to deliver faster or better?
Reframing processes this way helps identify where an agent can add real value not by replacing tasks but by contributing to an end-to-end outcome.
Once you understand how work flows across teams and systems, you’re better equipped to decide what an agent needs in order to be effective.
Your workflow insights reveal:
Which systems are involved
Which steps create delays
Where decisions are made
Where employees spend most of their time
Using these findings, IT teams can decide how to equip their agentic solutions.
n8n for broad connectivity If your workflows span many applications, n8n gives you a simple way to connect them. Its wide range of integrations helps create a flexible environment where an AI agent can interact with different tools across your organization.
Google ADK for deeper, intelligent actions For processes that require stronger reasoning, structured decision-making, or secure enterprise execution, Google ADK provides the foundation. It works well when your agent needs more control, more structure, or integration with AI models like Gemini.
The combination of these platformsguided by real workflow datahelps teams build solutions that match the actual way work happens, not the theoretical way it’s documented.
Agentic workflows don’t remove people from the process. They elevate them.
Your Workflow Insights show the moments where human judgment, approvals, or oversight are still essential. These moments become intentional checkpoints in your agentic design.
Examples include:
Financial approval steps
Risk-related decisions
Quality checks
Customer-facing communication
By designing these human touchpoints into the workflow, teams create a balance between intelligent assistance and enterprise-level safeguards.
Agentic workflows evolve over time. They improve as the organization changes, as employees give feedback, and as new tools are introduced.
Your initial workflow assessment gives you the metrics you need to measure progress, such as:
Time saved
Reduction in manual steps
Lower error frequency
Faster end-to-end completion
By monitoring the same metrics over time, IT teams can refine the agent’s behavior, adjust its responsibilities, or introduce new capabilities. This turns the rollout into a continuous improvement cycle rather than a one-time deployment.
A strong agentic strategy starts with understanding your real workflows, and soon, the ChromeOS Readiness Tool will help you uncover exactly that.
This upcoming addition brings clarity to the early stages of agentic adoption, helping IT teams make confident, insight-led decisions before they begin building.
The path to an agentic future starts with knowing your workflows, and the ChromeOS Readiness Tool is bringing that visibility directly to your dashboard.
In the enterprise, the real challenge of adopting agentic workflows is not simply building an intelligent system. It is creating a system that solves meaningful business problems at scale while operating securely and meeting compliance requirements. This is where Agentic Workflow Intelligence becomes indispensable. It provides the context, clarity, and prioritization needed for tools like Google ADK and n8n to deliver real value inside complex organizations.
Most enterprises operate thousands of workflows across departments and applications. Without clear intelligence, teams may end up enhancing a low-value process while high-impact opportunities remain hidden.
The Unlock: Workflow Intelligence analyzes critical metrics such as time spent, process cost, frequency, user friction, and error rates. This data highlights where effort is wasted, which tasks slow teams down, and which areas carry measurable operational impact. It turns guesswork into evidence.
The Tool Application: With these insights, IT teams can direct Google ADK or n8n toward the processes that offer the strongest return. For example, if workflow mapping reveals a financial reconciliation task that consumes hours across multiple team members, ADK or n8n can be used to build agents that handle the heavy lifting. Workflow Intelligence shifts the focus from isolated task improvements to strategic outcomes grounded in measurable value.
Enterprise workflows often involve confidential data, regulated information, and strict approval pathways. Agentic systems must operate inside clearly defined boundaries to remain secure, traceable, and compliant.
The Unlock: Workflow Intelligence reveals exactly where sensitive data appears, who interacts with it, and which steps require approvals. It shows the implicit governance that already exists inside the organization and highlights where controls must be applied.
The Tool Application:
Google ADK: Its deep integration with Google Cloud security offers enterprise-grade identity, permissions, and auditing. Once Workflow Intelligence identifies the data ownership and approval paths, ADK can enforce the correct access model so agents perform actions only under the right conditions.
n8n: Enterprises can deploy n8n in private cloud or on-premise environments with granular control over each integration. Combined with the compliance insights gained from workflow analysis, n8n enables teams to create secure, controlled pathways where agentic tasks operate with full transparency and traceability.
By combining Workflow Intelligence with the strengths of ADK and n8n, enterprises get systems that not only act effectively but also remain trustworthy and compliant across all stages.
The next generation of enterprise solutions will rely on multiple agents that work together. One agent prepares data. Another analyzes it. A third executes final steps or communicates with external systems. This collaborative structure mirrors how real teams function.
The Unlock: Workflow Intelligence identifies where specializations naturally exist inside a process. It reveals handoffs, domain expertise, verification points, and the sequence of responsibilities required to complete a workflow end-to-end. This becomes the blueprint for designing a multi-agent environment.
The Tool Application: Both Google ADK and n8n excel at orchestration. They provide the coordination layer where specialized agents interact. The workflow map determines which agent should handle which responsibility, when they exchange information, and how progress moves from one stage to the next. The result behaves like a digital team capable of handling complex enterprise tasks reliably and consistently.
While ADK and n8n provide the capabilities to act on workflow insights, enterprises still need to understand how work happens within their environment before designing agentic solutions. This is where the ChromeOS Readiness Tool will introduce a new Agentic Workflow Assessment feature.
This upcoming capability will highlight real workflows across devices and applications, reveal high-effort patterns, and identify areas where agentic systems can make a measurable impact. These insights will give IT teams a clear starting point, helping them prioritize the processes that benefit most from agentic solutions built with ADK, n8n, or similar platforms.
By connecting workflow understanding with powerful orchestration tools, organizations can move toward intelligent systems, aligned with real business patterns, and designed for meaningful enterprise outcomes.
The future of enterprise work is agentic. Unlike traditional task-focused approaches, agentic workflows leverage intelligent AI agents that can reason, plan, and adapt to unexpected situations. They are goal-oriented, not just task-oriented, enabling teams to focus on higher-value outcomes.
Yet many organizations jump straight into deploying AI solutions without a critical first step: a clear understanding of their existing workflows. This foundation is what separates successful agentic deployments from expensive, ineffective initiatives.
Conventional methods often rely on documented processes, the “ideal” version of how work should happen. But real work is messy. Employees navigate edge cases, rely on human judgment, and create workarounds to deal with legacy systems or system failures.
Introducing an intelligent agent without a true understanding of these realities risks amplifying inefficiencies rather than improving outcomes.
Workflow intelligence is about uncovering the reality of how work gets done. It involves techniques like process mining, task mining, and employee interviews to map actual steps, dependencies, and bottlenecks.
Key actions include:
Identify Hidden Steps: Understand the manual, undocumented steps employees use and the workarounds that keep operations moving.
Map Decision Points: Determine where human judgment is critical and how an agent’s reasoning can complement these decisions.
Establish Ground Truth: Define what success looks like by measuring the current outcomes, ensuring agents have a clear reference point for learning and improvement.
By applying workflow intelligence, organizations gain the blueprint to deploy agentic solutions effectively. It allows teams to move from executing tasks to orchestrating intelligent, adaptive outcomes.
To help organizations take this critical first step, the ChromeOS Readiness Tool will soon introduce the Agentic Workflow Assessment. This upcoming feature will give IT leaders a clear view of how work truly happens across devices and applications.
By surfacing real-world workflows, identifying high-effort processes, and mapping application dependencies, the tool will provide actionable insights to guide agentic workflow planning. Teams will be able to spot the areas where intelligent agents can have the greatest impact, ensuring each step is grounded in the reality of daily operations.
This feature will complement existing workflow intelligence methods, helping organizations prepare for the next generation of goal-oriented, adaptive workflows with confidence.
The future of enterprise efficiency is not only about having the right devices. It is about understanding how real work happens across your organization and spotting the moments where automation can create meaningful impact. Many teams want to adopt agentic workflows but struggle to identify where to begin. Most organizations lack visibility into the hidden routines, repetitive actions, and high-effort processes that consume employee time daily.
This is the core purpose behind introducing Agentic Readiness. We want to give IT leaders a clear way to see how work flows across applications and highlight the exact places where agentic automation can make a difference. Instead of guessing which tasks could benefit from automation, your dashboard will start revealing those opportunities for you. This update brings clarity, direction, and a practical starting point for any organization exploring Agentic-driven automation. With that foundation in place, we are excited to introduce a powerful new feature coming soon to your dashboard: the Agentic Workflow Assessment.
A Clear View of Real Workflows The Agentic Workflow Assessment brings visibility to the workflows happening across your enterprise devices. It provides the context you need before building any automation and gives you a starting point for identifying high-value opportunities. Once you see these workflows, you will have a clearer idea of which ones could be automated later using tools such as Google ADK, and n8n platforms.
What Insights Will You Gain? The upcoming dashboard upgrade provides a granular view of how work gets done in your organization. Here is what you can expect:
Visualize Real Workflows: Identify the most frequently used workflows and understand where employees are investing their time.
Map Application Dependencies: View all applications involved in each workflow and the sequence in which they are used.
Spot Critical Time Sinks: Workflows that exceed a total of 12 hours are marked as critical, making it easier to locate high-impact automation opportunities.
Defining Agentic Readiness The tool shows whether a workflow can be transformed into an agentic workflow using Innovative solutions available today, which are Google ADK and n8n. Workflows that meet this criteria are classified as Agentic Ready, helping teams understand where automation could drive measurable value.
Actionable Reporting All insights can be exported directly from the dashboard. These reports provide a full overview of your organization’s agentic readiness status, helping you plan and progress your automation journey with confidence. Stay tuned for this update to the ChromeOS Readiness Tool and get ready to uncover the hidden automation potential inside your enterprise.
Within the government IT landscape, efficiency, security, and cost-effectiveness are not merely aspirations, they are essential obligations. For the Douglas Omaha Technology Commission (DOTComm), supporting over 5,000 government workers across 120 locations was a logistical challenge that required a bold solution. By standardizing on Chrome Enterprise Browser, DOTComm didn't just simplify their infrastructure; they fundamentally transformed how Omaha and Douglas County serve their citizens.
DOTComm’s primary challenge was providing a reliable, secure way for employees to access files and stay connected, whether they were in the office or on the go. The solution lay in the browser. By deploying Chrome Enterprise Browser across their desktop and mobile fleets, DOTComm created a unified, secure workspace that travelled with the employee.
The impact on security was immediate. With Google Admin, the IT team could ensure that all downloads were automatically checked for malware, protecting sensitive government data without hindering user productivity. As Vijay Badal, Director of Application Services at DOTComm, noted, "As an IT department, we’re particularly pleased with the security and other IT benefits we get with Google... Chrome Browser and Google Workspace have allowed us to offer more secure and productive IT services."
The shift to a browser-first strategy produced staggering operational improvements. By centralizing management through the Chrome Enterprise Browser and Google Workspace, DOTComm achieved:
Reduced Support Volume: IT support tickets plummeted from 30 a day to just one or two, freeing up the helpdesk to focus on strategic initiatives rather than fires.
Leaner Operations: Infrastructure management headcount was reduced from six to one, allowing resources to be reallocated to development and innovation.
Cost Savings: The agency saved thousands of dollars in annual software licensing fees while simultaneously cutting hardware costs.
Faster Onboarding: New employees could be up and running faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.
DOTComm’s success with Chrome Enterprise Browser highlights the power of a cloud-first ecosystem. If you are inspired by these results and are considering taking the next step by migrating your devices to a full cloud-native operating system like ChromeOS or ChromeOS Flex, the ChromeOS Readiness Tool is your essential starting point.
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool is a free, private utility that helps organizations assess their technical readiness for a transition. It benefits your IT team by:
Identifying Compatible Devices: Instantly see which Windows devices in your fleet are eligible to be converted to ChromeOS or ChromeOS Flex.
Analyzing App Usage: Automatically inventory your applications to identify which are cloud-ready and which might require virtualization (VDI).
Generating Actionable Reports: Receive a detailed readiness report that allows you to plan a seamless, data-driven migration strategy without the guesswork.
Just as DOTComm standardized its browser experience to save costs and boost security, the ChromeOS Readiness Tool helps you determine how easily you can standardize your operating system to lock in those benefits for the long term. You can read the full story from here: https://chromeenterprise.google/customers/dotcomm-omaha-douglas-county/
For nearly a century, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) has been known for its commitment to quality, affordability, and community-focused healthcare. In today’s healthcare landscape, operational excellence depends not only on medical systems but also on the technology that supports secure access, fast workflows, and dependable digital experiences.
Like many enterprise organizations, BCBSNC faced a familiar challenge. Their teams were still relying on legacy browsers that slowed productivity and increased risk. The organization needed a modern browsing foundation that could support cloud applications, protect sensitive healthcare data, and deliver a consistent experience for thousands of employees.
This case study highlights how BCBSNC transformed its environment by selecting Chrome Enterprise Browser and how your organization can evaluate its own path toward a secure, cloud-first future.
BCBSNC identified that a large percentage of its workforce was still depending on Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge in their older configurations. This created several operational pain points:
Update fatigue: IT teams were spending time and resources trying to keep legacy browsers updated, which created gaps in security posture.
Productivity slowdowns: Key applications responded inconsistently, and employees experienced delays that hurt daily workflows.
Heightened security risks: Older browsers lacked modern phishing protections, sandboxing, and real-time safeguards needed for sensitive healthcare information.
BCBSNC needed a browser that could support modern web standards while still giving employees access to critical legacy applications without disruption.
Instead of defaulting to the most well-known browser, BCBSNC conducted a structured evaluation. They compared six major browsers using eight decision categories, such as operating system compatibility, enterprise-grade security, accessibility capabilities, and strength of the extensions library.
Chrome Browser stood out due to both performance and ecosystem value. With Chrome Enterprise, BCBSNC gained powerful administrative controls through the Google Admin Console, letting the End User Computing team manage updates, enforce policies, and maintain consistent governance across their environment.
BCBSNC adopted a disciplined deployment model using Chrome release channels. This helped them achieve stability while still testing future updates early.
Beta Channel: Assigned to pilot users who verified application behavior on upcoming Chrome versions. This allowed the IT team to validate compatibility six weeks before public release and reduce surprises.
Stable Channel: Rolled out to the broader workforce. This channel delivered fully tested releases every 2 to 3 weeks and kept the environment predictable.
According to Nitin Kadam, Senior Enterprise Architect at BCBSNC, Chrome Enterprise strengthened its defenses through helpful warnings, phishing prevention, and advanced site protection features.
One of the most common concerns for any browser transformation is the fear that older applications might stop working. BCBSNC addressed this using Legacy Browser Support.
The outcome was remarkably positive. Out of roughly 1200 applications in their environment, only six required Legacy Browser Support. All six continued to function reliably, which gave BCBSNC confidence to modernize without interrupting mission-critical operations.
BCBSNC demonstrated that choosing Chrome Enterprise Browser can elevate security, accelerate development workflows, and raise productivity across large teams. Once your organization standardizes on a secure enterprise browser, the natural next step is to evaluate the devices that support your cloud first goals.
This is where the ChromeOS Readiness Tool becomes essential.
Organizations considering ChromeOS Flex often want clear insights on which devices in their current Windows fleet are compatible. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool provides those insights without guesswork.
Clear, data-driven assessments: The tool scans your existing devices and shows which ones qualify as Certified models that can transition smoothly to ChromeOS Flex.
Cost efficiency: Instead of replacing an entire fleet, you can extend the lifespan of devices that already meet requirements, reducing capital expenses.
Sustainability benefits: Repurposing hardware helps minimize e-waste and supports long-term environmental commitments.
By following the same principle that guided BCBSNC, you can use data to shape the next phase of your cloud-first journey. Chrome Enterprise Browser delivers a modern, secure browsing foundation, and the ChromeOS Readiness Tool helps you evaluate the hardware that will support your workforce in the future.
You can read the full case story here:
In emergency medical services, every second is a decision point. Paramedics have traditionally worked with paper charts and radio updates, but modern care requires a connected, responsive and secure digital environment. Access to patient history, charting systems and reference materials at the point of care is now essential for fast and effective treatment.
Middlesex Hospital has moved from a basic paper world to a fully digital model. With Chrome Enterprise Browser, the hospital has solved a central challenge in healthcare: delivering instant access to vital information while protecting sensitive patient data at all times.
This is how Middlesex Hospital is using Chrome Enterprise Browser to support mobility, strengthen security and improve the experience of frontline medical teams. You can also watch their story from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9jKroGk8m0
Middlesex operates with a distinct EMS structure that relies heavily on “intercept paramedics.” These are specialist medics who do not use dedicated vehicles. Instead, they jump between different ambulances depending on the call.
“It is really important for us to be portable and be able to take our technology with us,” one Middlesex EMS representative explains.
This high degree of mobility presents a technical requirement that goes far beyond basic device access. Paramedics need a consistent workspace no matter where they are, what equipment they use or which hospital they are supporting. Chrome Enterprise Browser becomes the anchor that follows them everywhere. Whether charting patients after transferring them to one of seventeen hospitals or documenting care from a hotspot in the field, the browser provides a unified entry point to all cloud-based systems.
Portability alone is not enough. In healthcare, security must move at the same speed as the clinical response.
“Keeping patient data safe is one of our primary concerns,” Middlesex emphasizes.
Chrome Enterprise Browser plays a critical role in maintaining that protection. Devices in EMS environments frequently come online and offline throughout the day. Middlesex IT teams rely on the browser to apply security policies instantly whenever a device connects. The physical device becomes secondary. The browser acts as a secure, managed container that brings the correct controls directly to the user.
This approach supports the rapid sharing of information between healthcare organizations while keeping sensitive records shielded from unauthorized access. Both speed and privacy remain intact.
One of the often-overlooked benefits of Chrome Enterprise Browser is how natural it feels for frontline teams. Paramedics already use the browser in their everyday lives. This familiarity removes the learning curve that often slows down technology deployments.
For Middlesex, this means fewer support tickets, faster adoption and more time focused on patients. When technology disappears into the background, care becomes the priority.
Middlesex Hospital’s story highlights what is possible when mobility, security and simplicity come together in a modern browser environment. For many IT leaders, the next question is practical. How do you prepare your own fleet, applications and workflows for a similar shift?
This is where the ChromeOS Readiness Tool becomes a core part of the planning process.
Before introducing ChromeOS or rolling out Chrome Enterprise Browser across teams, the ChromeOS Readiness Tool analyzes your environment. It provides a private and comprehensive way to understand which applications already work smoothly on ChromeOS devices, and which may need attention.
How it benefits your deployment:
Inventory & Assessment: Just as Middlesex needs to know their "charting systems" are accessible, this tool automatically identifies the apps your workforce visits most and assesses their compatibility.
Risk Mitigation: It flags potential blockers before they reach the paramedics' hands. You get a detailed report showing which devices and apps are "cloud-ready" versus those that may require virtualization.
Security & Extension Auditing: Instead of guessing which browser extensions your team needs, the tool provides a "Browser Insights" report. This allows you to identify critical extensions and flag risky, unauthorized ones ensuring you can build precise security policies from day one.
By using the ChromeOS Readiness Tool, IT teams can build a confident transition plan that supports their users from day one. Middlesex Hospital shows what is possible when the right technology meets the right workflow. With the right preparation, your teams can open their browser knowing it is ready to perform whenever the moment demands it.
In today’s evolving threat landscape, the browser is no longer just a gateway to the internet. It has become the primary workspace for employees and one of the most critical surfaces to protect. For modern, cloud-focused organisations like Snap Inc., security begins with strengthening the browser itself.
Snap’s approach shows how a secure enterprise browser strategy can reduce risk, support global scale, and simplify device management. By adopting Chrome Enterprise as their secure enterprise browser, they created a model that blends strong security with an efficient user experience.
The question many enterprises face now is simple: how do we move toward that level of browser-centric security with the devices we already have?
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool provides that path. Before any organisation can adopt a secure, cloud-first model, it must understand the capabilities of its current hardware fleet. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool helps bridge that gap and prepares enterprises for a future where the browser leads their security strategy.
Snap has been managing Chrome Enterprise across a large global workforce for more than four years. Their implementation highlights why the Chrome Enterprise Browser has become a foundational layer in modern IT security.
Defense in depth: Nick Reva, Head of Enterprise Security Engineering at Snap, shared that by hardening Google Chrome as their secure enterprise browser, they reduced browser attack surface and introduced layered controls that protect employees from account takeover threats.
Extension control: Using Chrome Enterprise Core, the team evaluated and blocked high-risk extensions while creating a trusted list. As Vaidehi Thakur, Enterprise Security Engineer at Snap, explained, this prevented the types of supply chain attacks that often target browser extensions.
Built in DLP controls: Instead of depending solely on heavy CASB or SASE tooling, Snap used Chrome Enterprise Premium to limit risky transfers of code and sensitive information. These protections worked immediately with minimal overhead for security teams.
Through this strategy, Snap delivered strong security protections without slowing down productivity. They supported zero trust access for more than four hundred internal applications and reduced risky data movement, all within the browser.
While Snap’s cloud native foundation makes adoption straightforward, many organisations operate mixed fleets of older Windows and Mac devices. Leaders often want to move toward a secure, cloud-first environment such as ChromeOS or ChromeOS Flex, but lack clarity about which devices can support this transition.
Visibility is the missing piece, and without it, IT teams cannot prepare their environment for a browser-first security strategy.
Moving toward a secure, cloud-focused operating model begins with high-quality fleet insights. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool delivers those insights and identifies which devices can run ChromeOS Flex, giving you a clear path toward modernising your endpoints.
Here is how the tool supports your strategy.
The ChromeOS Readiness Tool scans your Windows devices and identifies the models that are certified for ChromeOS Flex. This removes guesswork and gives you a clear view of how much of your fleet can transition immediately without new hardware purchases.
Snap strengthened their security posture by focusing on the browser. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool helps you apply the same philosophy by converting eligible devices to ChromeOS Flex. This brings proactive protections such as sandboxing, background updates, and verified boot to your existing fleet while reducing the cost of device refresh cycles.
By identifying devices that can be renewed with a lightweight, cloud-first operating system, the tool supports sustainability efforts and helps organisations reduce e-waste. It also extends the usable life of hardware already in service.
Snap used Chrome Enterprise Premium to support zero-trust access across its environment. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool is the first step toward this model. It identifies devices that can move into a managed ChromeOS experience, where identity-centric policies and advanced access controls can be applied consistently.
The tool provides a clear report that supports phased rollouts. IT teams can identify a pilot group of ready devices, test Chrome Enterprise policies such as data protection rules and extension controls, and build toward a full organisation-wide deployment.
Snap showed that the future of enterprise security lives in the browser. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool helps you take the first step toward that future by revealing what your current devices can already support. With the right insights and a clear path forward, you can modernise your fleet and move confidently toward a secure, cloud-first environment powered by the Chrome Enterprise Browser.
(You can read Snap’s full case story here: https://chromeenterprise.google/resources/customer-stories/snap/)
In today’s cloud-first, hybrid workplace, the browser has become the primary endpoint for accessing corporate apps, data, and workflows. This shift has redefined the browser as a critical security boundary one that attackers increasingly target through compromised sessions, unsafe websites, and risky extensions.
Chrome Enterprise Browser applies a layered, Zero Trust–aligned model that protects users and data across three essential control points: the session, the domain, and the extension.
Session security verifies that the person using a web app is legitimate and that their actions remain safe throughout the session. This protects access across any location, network, or device.
Context-Aware Access Controls (CAAC) allow IT teams to set dynamic access rules based on real-time signals, including:
User identity: Is the user signed in with a managed profile?
Device posture: Does the device meet security baselines such as OS version, disk encryption, or third-party security posture?
Location: Is the user connecting from an approved region or IP range?
These contextual signals determine whether the user receives access, limited access, or no access at all.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) enforces protection inside the session by controlling sensitive data movement. Policies can:
Block or warn on copy/paste from enterprise apps to unmanaged destinations
Prevent high-risk uploads or downloads based on domain or file type
Apply watermarks to sensitive content and block screen captures
Together, these capabilities strengthen authentication, limit risky actions, and reduce the chance of sensitive data leaking during active sessions.
Domain security protects users from malicious or unauthorized websites and isolates corporate activity from threats. It is the first defensive layer against phishing, malware, and cross-site attacks.
Chrome’s real-time threat protection, powered by Google’s security intelligence, helps:
Block phishing pages and malware downloads
Analyze unfamiliar or high-risk file downloads before they reach the device
Core browser defences, such as site isolation and sandboxing, place each site in its own separate process. If one tab encounters malicious code, it cannot access data in other tabs or on the device.
Administrators can also apply URL filtering, allowing access only to categories and domains relevant to work while restricting sites that introduce risk or lower productivity.
Extensions can boost productivity but also introduce risk through broad permissions or hidden malicious behaviour. Chrome Enterprise Browser provides centralized controls that help teams deploy only what’s trusted.
IT administrators can use policy-based management to:
Force-install approved extensions
Allow-list or block-list extensions from the Chrome Web Store
Restrict extensions based on the permissions they request, such as access to the camera, microphone, or reading data across websites
Advanced visibility features provide ongoing extension risk monitoring, highlighting permission levels, behaviour patterns, and potential anomalies. This gives IT teams a clear path to detect unwanted extensions and act before they create exposure.
Effective browser security begins with understanding the current environment. The ChromeOS Readiness Tool supports this by giving organizations a detailed assessment of their existing setup and readiness for ChromeOS.
This assessment strengthens all three security pillars:
Extension Security Insight: The tool’s Browser Insights capability shows which extensions are installed across managed devices. It highlights the browser versions and Extensions along with IDs, helping IT teams clean up the environment and create stronger allow-list/block-list policies.
Secure Transition: All readiness information is strongly encrypted, whether stored locally or in cloud storage. This provides a secure foundation for a smooth transition to ChromeOS and a controlled rollout of Chrome Enterprise Browser’s security capabilities.
Chrome Enterprise Browser brings together Session, Domain, and Extension security to create a resilient, adaptive protection model that matches how work happens today. By combining real-time threat protection, contextual access controls, and granular extension governance, organizations gain a stronger, more consistent security perimeter directly at the point where users access apps and data.